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...times are a changing at least a bit. The occasional droplet of American talent that made it into the league has expanded to a small trickle. And a number of the players breaking in are Beanpot alums. Harvard, B.U., B.C., and Northeastern haven't produced a Lafleur yet, but they have sent the NHL some players who are now making their marks or show promise of doing so in the not-too-distant future...
SETTING ASIDE an evening to endure this sort of film sounds bad enough in theory; the reality is even worse. Herzog does not film scenes, he leers at them, trying to extract every droplet of meaning and mood his flabby creative muscles can muster. And the sluggish screenplay gives little relief. You never get the feeling that much has been lost in the translation because there isn't much to be lost in the first place. That Herzog can summon the raw nerve to inflict this unredeeming and unredeemable trash on an audience speaks volumes about what obligations he feels...
...other 97 minutes. MGM would have done better to confine itself to three minutes of Gene Kelly in the puddles. Unveiled in all its technicolor gaudiness, Singin' in the Rain stands revealed as an overblown, badly acted, often tedious extravaganza that almost drowns Kelly's perfect little droplet...
Tektites, those mysterious glassy spheroids seemingly strewn across Asia and Australia from space, were also once thought to be splash droplets from some very large meteor hitting the moon. Now, because no lunar material resembles tektite glass in composition, most scientists agree that the tektites do not have a lunar origin. Instead, Frondel said. "It looks more and more that they may be of terrestrial origin." However, no definite theory such as the splash droplet theory for the glass beads on the moon, has been developed to explain the tektites' origin or formation...
...novel In Transit, Brigid Brophy visualizes the whole modern world as an airport waiting room, calling it, "a droplet of the twentieth century; pure, isolated, rare twentieth century." She must have been thinking of Paris' Orly Airport. When they land at Orly, tourists are only 14 miles from the heart of Paris. But before they depart for the city, they might do well to look around. If they do, they will discover why 3,200,000 people came to Orly last year, a million more than visited the Eiffel Tower-not to fly, but simply to sample the charms...